Bryant University

Maggie Fox enters her third season as the Head Cross Country Coach and Assistant Track & Field Coach in 2025-26.

Fox's first two seasons in Smithfield have resulted in two of the greatest seasons for distance runners in program history.

Coaching Highlights

• Part of the 2024-25 Women's Coaching Staff of the Year at the America East Indoor Championships.
• Coached first two female student-athletes to reach NCAA Championships First Round in 2025.
• Helped women's indoor track and field team place second at the 2024-25 America East Championships. 
• Helped women's outdoor track and field team to a first place finish at the New England Championships, a first in program history, in 2024.

2024-25:

• Cross Country began with a sweep of the Nassaney Invitational as Slaney and Trott both ran to first-place finishes.
• Slaney would go on to win the New England Championship, while Trott placed second.
• At the America East Championships, they both ran to second-place finishes. Chloe Whiting added a fourth-place finish to help the women finish fourth, their highest finish in DI program history.
• The women would run to their highest finish at the NCAA Regionals, placing 22nd. Trott finished 25th overall, the highest female finish in program history. She earned All-Region honors for her performance. Whiting finished 36th, giving the Bulldogs two runners inside the top 50 for the first time in program history.
• Slaney ran to a 30th-place finish, the highest finish for a male in program history.
• Whiting began her historic 2025 by breaking Eimear Black's 12-year record in the 5000 by over a minute.
• The America East Indoor Championships provided one of the greatest performances in program history. Bryant would win 13 medals and the women would finish second, the highest in program history.
• Whiting won both the 3000 and 5000 on her way to America East Women's Most Outstanding Track Performer.
• Shelby DeGrenier would keep it rolling as she claimed a gold medal in the 800 at the ECAC Championships.
• During the outdoor season, Bryant started strong as the men and women swept the Black and Gold Invitational for the second-straight year.
• Bryant broke both the men's and women's DMR school records as the Penn Relays.
• Whiting was named America East Women's Most Outstanding Track Performer for the second straight meet after winning gold in the 5000 and silver in the 10,000.
• Slaney capped his career by breaking the meet record in the 10,000 and winning gold.
• Whiting and Trott would cap a historic season as both qualified for the NCAA Championships First Round. It marked the first time in program history a female had qualified and the first time multiple athletes qualified in the same year.
• Whiting would go on to a 20th-place finish at the 5000 in the first round.

2023-24

• The cross country season was highlighted by Slaney's second-place finish at the America East Championships. It is the highest finish by a male at a conference championship in DI program history. 
• The women's team would close out the season with its highest finish ever at the NCAA Regionals, placing 25th.
• Trott got the indoor season going early, breaking Eimear Black's 11-year old school record in the 3000m.
• The Bulldogs would go on to win nine medals at the America East Indoor Championships. The women finished fourth, the highest finish in DI program history. The meet also included 42 PRs and 28 all-time top-10 finishes.
• Bryant won five gold medals at the NEICAAA Championships, with Slaney sweeping the 5000 and 3000.
• The outdoor season featured a first in program history as the men and women both won the Black and Gold Invitational. Trott broke another record held by Black, breaking her 11-year old school record in the 10k.
• Slaney also shined in pre-championship meets, becoming the first male runner in program history to run a sub-14:00 minute 5k.
• The women continued their excellent spring, posting their highest finish in program history as they placed third at the America East Championships.
• It was just the beginning as the Bulldogs won the New England Championship less than a week later. It marked the first victory for either program in school history. 

Fox comes to Smithfield after spending two years at Babson College as an assistant coach. During her time at Babson, Coach Fox oversaw the addition of 22 new school records and helped elevate the program to new heights.

Prior to Babson, Fox worked as an operations coordinator for Boston College and coached for Emmanuel College, overseeing all training including strength and conditioning for distance athletes. Her experience also includes ten years as a head high school cross country coach and four years as a jumps coach in the towns of Needham and Newton. Fox served six years on the USA Track & Field New England board of directors, four in the role of vice president.

Fox graduated from The College of the Holy Cross in 2010 where she competed in cross country and track and field. She then received her CORe: Credential of Readiness in 2016 from Harvard's Online Business School and she earned her MS in Sports Administration in 2021 from Boston College. She has been competing for the Greater Boston Track Club since 2012.